PASTURING SHEEP ON ALFALFA. 
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2. Have a large enough field to supply them with an 
abundance of food with little effort. 
3. Leave them in the field day and night and do not re¬ 
move them when the field is irrigated. 
4. Have water and salt before them all the time and if 
there are no trees in the field provide some sort of shelter 
against the sun. 
5. Be sure they are filled up with some other food and 
not thirsty when first turned on the alfalfa. 
6. Do not attempt to pasture on alfalfa anything but 
old ewes and their lambs. 
It is probable that by following out the above directions 
the losses by bloat with old ewes can be reduced to less than 
five per cent. 
